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Exploring Iron Deficiency in Alberta: Following up on Clinical Observations [Population health and epidemiology]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Iron deficiency (ID) is a common and preventable micronutrient deficiency, affecting cognitive development, immune function, and well-being of individuals, and leading to substantial health care costs. These individuals had at least one ferritin test between 2010-2022. serum ferritin below 15 μg/mL).

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Development and external validation of the FluScoreVax risk score for influenza that incorporates vaccine status (EAST-PC) [Acute respiratory infections]

Annals of Family Medicine

Setting or Dataset: Adults presenting to the outpatient setting in 12 European countries during flu season with a chief complaint of acute cough between 2007 and 2010 were used to derive and internally validate the risk score (GRACE data). It was then externally validated in a contemporary US population (EAST-PC data).

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Passive Digital Marker Can Identify Childhood Asthma Risk

Physician's Weekly

The analysis included data from 69,109 children born between 2010 and 2017, of whom 5,290 (7.65 Arthur Hamie Owora, Ph.D., from the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis, and colleagues sought to externally validate and update the PARS as a passive digital marker (PDM) for asthma risk. Arthur Hamie Owora, Ph.D.,

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How Locum Tenens Fits Into Modern Healthcare Staffing Solutions

Barton Associates

In fact, hospitals, clinics, and other facilities are already reeling from a shortage of providers and it’s hurting patients— according to the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) , tens of millions of Americans live in areas with shortages of primary care, dental, and mental health professionals.

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Episode 155: Antiracism in Medicine Series – Episode 5 – Racism, Power, and Policy: Building the Antiracist Health Systems of the Future

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Harvard Medical School Primary Care Blog. 2010 Oct;71(8):1390-8. Epub 2010 Aug 11. 1:05:57 Outtakes Takeaways Name Racism for What It Is If we don’t explicitly say the word racism, and identify its historical context, then we are complicit in its denial. References Mentioned 01:55 Jones, C. 16:20 Jones, CP.

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Nurse Practitioners Critical in Treating Older Adults as Ranks of Geriatricians Shrink

Physician's Weekly

That means many older adults will be relying on other primary care physicians, who already can’t keep up with demand , and nurse practitioners, whose ranks are booming. Their growth has bolstered primary care, and, like doctors, they can specialize in particular branches of medicine.

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AGS Beers Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use: A Podcast with Todd Semla and Mike Steinman

GeriPal

And then in 2010, the AGS took over because it was sort of wafting out there and people were wondering, when are you going to update it? And we were trying to get funding from different places and then AGS kind of stepped in and so they’ve been the stewards of it since 2010. Alex: We’re having Beers. Todd: Thank you.

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